Fully agree with this AC. If this is a geek/nerd posting this question you should be ashamed of yourself. I was expecting some sort of photographic evidence with layout and resulting HOWTO. HOWTO: Evacuate your data-centre quickly.
1. Highlight highest value equipment first 2. Arrange the physical design of the data-centre to quickly remove priority rack-mounted equipment first. 3. Prioritize: Stuff not currently backed up; expensive equipment. 4. Flood the place with flame retardant before leaving. 5. etc
This is the point that you realise that the people with stronger passwords are the ones you want to throw more brute force processing into hacking their passwords because they have something valuable to hide.
Unfortunately, I know my password has been hacked which means that the entire segment of accounts with the same password are effectively compromised. Its not my linked.in account that is worth hacking as they attackers could be scraping information from other more valuable sites.
Why are there wings in space? Surely we should have ships without wings and we should have a LOT more robotic mining & self replicating mining factories!
Thanks, -Tim
PS. From a humanity inspiration perspective the self replicating mining factories just make sense. Mine it, melt it, print it = new space ship; new factory.
You should never be able to straighten your arms when holding your steering wheel... EVER. If you crash you want slightly bent arms so that the impact doesnt cause your arm bones to shatter.
If you must push your seat back (long legs), then adjust the steering wheel and pull it closer to you (assuming you have an adjustable steering wheel).
The highest selling application of this will end up in some sort of glowing cat with a pink ribbon sold to kids, that you have to press a button to feed all day.
This capability is required for any form of sustained combat. It becomes even more critical once debris becomes detrimental to long term satellite system.
The PS3 has probably provided the biggest software leap in game architecture in the last 3 years. This is in comparison to typical XBox or PC platform. I argue this only because the forced paradigm shift to fully utilize the Cell architecture should be directly transferable to multi threaded programming on an 8 core AMD/Intel processor.
The PS3 teams that fully utilize Cell would probably lead the way in the next 10 years on PC platforms.
Intelligence - Deploy active/passive sensor net in an area or in an orbital plane. Used for detection and self positioning system. These could be micro satellites (100kg) or larger satellites for more permanent gps like positioning system. - Deep space communication network. Again, micro satellite network deployed to ensure that comms never originate from high value sources/targets
Defence - Dodge projectile weapons by having automated, periodic, chaotic adjustments of direction (minor adjustments will be sufficient to avoid most dumb projectile weapons) - Lasers to protect against inbound missiles
Attack - Active threat - Missiles with appropriate guidance systems will be best bang for buck. 20% nuclear. - Passive threat - Mines laid in the same orbital plane with minor adjustments. 5% nuclear. - Lasers will easily pick of less advanced opponents (take out solar arrays, communication antennas, sensor probes, etc)
Spacecraft Board - Multi functional docking equipment - Flexible foam/sealant to protect against unexpected close quarter damage - Improved visors, etc to prevent death due to a single punch or vehicle manuvuer. - Quick release/abort mechanisms - Puncture hull and Inject toxic gas OR waiting for it to bleed oxygen before you repair the hull. - Projectile weapons for in cabin combat designed not to damage the hull. (Rubber bullets, etc) - There is a whole other discussion around how you dock and takeover another space craft.....
Transport - Using traditional thrust mechanisms are most effective for manoeuvres. Most other mechanisms (ion drive, solar sail, etc) will result in easy to hit targets OR lack of thrust. - All such advanced drives (ion, solar sail, etc) will include normal propellant propulsion for high velocity/reaction manoeuvres - Deep space combat will be very different to orbital combat due to the gravity well. Noone will want to fight in the gravity well unless you intend ground based assault. This will be based on the cost of escape manoeuvres.
All of this is based on current assumptions: - No magical/thrust mechanism - No magical gravity mechanism
With thrust comes - Increased access to orbit (heavier construction capability) - Increase capability to create nuclear powered spacecraft (like a nuclear powered submarine/aircraft carrier) - I would argue that a submarine has a more harsh environment at depth - Increased manoeuvrability - Increased armour capability - Less dependency on solar power (bigger reactor)
Without magical thrust - poor efficiency of combat in orbital well - cost constrained for all material - more fragile craft - limited number of manoeuvrability based on total volume of fuel before catastrophic failure
With no magical gravity comes - centrifuge based life support - High G acceleration on emergency manoeuvres - poor efficiency of combat in orbital well
With magical gravity comes - simple craft design - improved life support systems
To sum it up. Current space warfare will not be glamorous. First strike will kill. There is no reason you could not manufacture something the size of an aircraft carrier except.... for the fact that our manufacturing capability in space, with existing technologies, will not work. On that scale, we are probably closest to manufacturing using 3d printing/resin based asteroid mining than a ground based build and hoist mentality.
Commenting more on the fact that both Twitter and Facebook shut their doors to Google:
If facebook and twitter want in to +Your World, they will have to drop their walls.
Good strategic move by Google. There is definitely no grounds for anti-trust (Other people will provide better explanations than I) but it will leave Facebook and Twitter with a bad taste in their mouths as they are forced to the table to deal with Google.
FB (& TW) seem to want to takeover the customer by keeping customers in their walled gardens. Take over messaging and remove email, etc.
FB will now be more likely to open its platform to Google, and by extension, ensure that they are unable to control the entire world's social platform/market. Couple with this will be much better privacy controls that should come with open, privacy focused platform.
If Google doesn't do this, FB will introduce FB Search along with Bing or some other absurd measure to replace Google.
5 years ago everyone would have been playing nice... but today... a single company can produce a single product and sell this product to the entire world....
In this story, Google is painted as the wolf with the 3 little pigs being Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft.
This is to be the iTV to the TV as the iPod was to the portable MP3 player. Google TV is the MP3 player in this equation.
The fundamentals are, however, different:
1. Everyone already has a TV. 2. Everyone is already manufacturing TVs. 3. Every broadcaster has equipment (analog/digital) for that marketplace. 4. Broadcast TV is already legislated and controlled as a propagand^H^H^H^H broadcasting authority.
The iPod was competing in a new/clean market that did something fundamentally different to the portable CD Player. It "won" in that market place because it succeeding by (1) producing an incredible form factor, (2) taking advantage of iTunes distribution of digital music.
What Apple and Sony want to do is earn incredible profits by controlling and exclusively monetizing the entire supply chain from producer to consumer (pay per view), and force that on consumers without them realising it.... Doing this in an established market is going to be difficult and everyone has learnt from iTunes.
iTunes saved the audio market by providing leadership and an alternative to "piracy".
Now what HP should be doing is taking their Web-OS tablet and ensure that their full range of corporate applications are streamlined to work on the WebOS. In actual fact, i'd take that WebOS tablet and streamline it in almost every manner specifically to be the preferred enterprise application tablet as opposed to a consumer tablet.
Exactly what the above means.... corporate remote manageability, good development environment, fantastic barcode and scanner device integration, extra durable, extended battery life, great out of the box adapters for their corporate applications, etc.
With their focus on HTML5 apps we have started entering into the trusted computing phase of life.
I already trust my iPad more for online banking than my Windows 7 PC. Why - its obvious, the ipad doesnt have viruses and can therefore be considered secure.
Trusted computing has soo many advantages to society yet in the hands of the wolves it has many disadvantages too.
I believe they've missed the point of the conference.
The real question is "How do you build 1000 starships". Building one starship is like building one disposable rocket. We need to look at the entire economics and ecosystem required to manufacture this en-mass on a repeatable sustainable basis otherwise we are looking at a one-off moon mission that is not sustainable in the longterm.
When the zerg rock up, 1 starship is not gonna be enough.
This is inevitable and should be applauded. (Hehe - how sick is that!?) No - seriously.
The problem we face is not one of automated killing but the requirement for serious advances in the ability of humans to forgive, understand and cooperate with each other. War is only required when (1) human understanding breaks down, (2) some idiotic dictator has a mental problem, (3) enslavement.
It is amazing how easy it is to mold a square meter of solid granite and how difficult it is to change the mindset of a stubborn person. This applies to a wide range of people from any form of religious fanatics to any form of political fanatics... in actual fact - any form of fanatic. Stubbornness in the face of reason, logic and facts perpetuates unnecessary arguments.
I'm not american but there are fewer countries that have stronger political institutions and there is noone else i'd rather have with automated killing devices. Now AK devices in the hands of North Korea - different story.
Scientific advances in medicine, chemistry, computing... and war... will proceed. I unfortunately do not believe that our ability to cooperate has moved forward much.
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Didn't Mac OS X have this years ago?
Next, people will be trying to sell me bottled water.
What was the result of the military research?
And that is the whole truth...
I believe that the Iranian scientists probably understand this, to its fullest extent, however the religious nutters are what you have to worry about.
Fully agree with this AC. If this is a geek/nerd posting this question you should be ashamed of yourself. I was expecting some sort of photographic evidence with layout and resulting HOWTO. HOWTO: Evacuate your data-centre quickly.
1. Highlight highest value equipment first
2. Arrange the physical design of the data-centre to quickly remove priority rack-mounted equipment first.
3. Prioritize: Stuff not currently backed up; expensive equipment.
4. Flood the place with flame retardant before leaving.
5. etc
This is the point that you realise that the people with stronger passwords are the ones you want to throw more brute force processing into hacking their passwords because they have something valuable to hide.
Unfortunately, I know my password has been hacked which means that the entire segment of accounts with the same password are effectively compromised. Its not my linked.in account that is worth hacking as they attackers could be scraping information from other more valuable sites.
This should be a success code, 2xx, and it should be 1984 - monitored and censored.
MPAA are sympathetic to abuse of the legal process.
That makes it good doesnt it?
WTF!
Hi,
Why are there wings in space? Surely we should have ships without wings and we should have a LOT more robotic mining & self replicating mining factories!
Thanks,
-Tim
PS. From a humanity inspiration perspective the self replicating mining factories just make sense. Mine it, melt it, print it = new space ship; new factory.
How the hell are they going to fit a pizza oven in a laptop?
Where are they going to fit the coke drip?
I say we take off and nuke the ship from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
You should never be able to straighten your arms when holding your steering wheel... EVER. If you crash you want slightly bent arms so that the impact doesnt cause your arm bones to shatter.
If you must push your seat back (long legs), then adjust the steering wheel and pull it closer to you (assuming you have an adjustable steering wheel).
No batteries for kids toys. Yup. Thats probably the winning application.
The highest selling application of this will end up in some sort of glowing cat with a pink ribbon sold to kids, that you have to press a button to feed all day.
This capability is required for any form of sustained combat. It becomes even more critical once debris becomes detrimental to long term satellite system.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2682447&cid=39109285
Proof that IE is stupid.... ??
The PS3 has probably provided the biggest software leap in game architecture in the last 3 years. This is in comparison to typical XBox or PC platform. I argue this only because the forced paradigm shift to fully utilize the Cell architecture should be directly transferable to multi threaded programming on an 8 core AMD/Intel processor.
The PS3 teams that fully utilize Cell would probably lead the way in the next 10 years on PC platforms.
Intelligence
- Deploy active/passive sensor net in an area or in an orbital plane. Used for detection and self positioning system. These could be micro satellites (100kg) or larger satellites for more permanent gps like positioning system.
- Deep space communication network. Again, micro satellite network deployed to ensure that comms never originate from high value sources/targets
Defence
- Dodge projectile weapons by having automated, periodic, chaotic adjustments of direction (minor adjustments will be sufficient to avoid most dumb projectile weapons)
- Lasers to protect against inbound missiles
Attack
- Active threat - Missiles with appropriate guidance systems will be best bang for buck. 20% nuclear.
- Passive threat - Mines laid in the same orbital plane with minor adjustments. 5% nuclear.
- Lasers will easily pick of less advanced opponents (take out solar arrays, communication antennas, sensor probes, etc)
Spacecraft Board
- Multi functional docking equipment
- Flexible foam/sealant to protect against unexpected close quarter damage
- Improved visors, etc to prevent death due to a single punch or vehicle manuvuer.
- Quick release/abort mechanisms
- Puncture hull and Inject toxic gas OR waiting for it to bleed oxygen before you repair the hull.
- Projectile weapons for in cabin combat designed not to damage the hull. (Rubber bullets, etc)
- There is a whole other discussion around how you dock and takeover another space craft.....
Transport
- Using traditional thrust mechanisms are most effective for manoeuvres. Most other mechanisms (ion drive, solar sail, etc) will result in easy to hit targets OR lack of thrust.
- All such advanced drives (ion, solar sail, etc) will include normal propellant propulsion for high velocity/reaction manoeuvres
- Deep space combat will be very different to orbital combat due to the gravity well. Noone will want to fight in the gravity well unless you intend ground based assault. This will be based on the cost of escape manoeuvres.
All of this is based on current assumptions:
- No magical/thrust mechanism
- No magical gravity mechanism
With thrust comes
- Increased access to orbit (heavier construction capability)
- Increase capability to create nuclear powered spacecraft (like a nuclear powered submarine/aircraft carrier)
- I would argue that a submarine has a more harsh environment at depth
- Increased manoeuvrability
- Increased armour capability
- Less dependency on solar power (bigger reactor)
Without magical thrust
- poor efficiency of combat in orbital well
- cost constrained for all material
- more fragile craft
- limited number of manoeuvrability based on total volume of fuel before catastrophic failure
With no magical gravity comes
- centrifuge based life support
- High G acceleration on emergency manoeuvres
- poor efficiency of combat in orbital well
With magical gravity comes
- simple craft design
- improved life support systems
To sum it up. Current space warfare will not be glamorous. First strike will kill. There is no reason you could not manufacture something the size of an aircraft carrier except.... for the fact that our manufacturing capability in space, with existing technologies, will not work. On that scale, we are probably closest to manufacturing using 3d printing/resin based asteroid mining than a ground based build and hoist mentality.
This is more about unifying Google Documents, Google Cloud Connect, Microsoft Office and Chromebooks.
If this product makes no money, it will still free people from their desktops and introduce the opportunity to be truly cloud based.
RIM should have released their new BB based on Android with their value proposition being corporate security & corporate manageability.
They should have focused on their corporate platform and ensured android apps are sandboxed and isolated improving corporate "trust" and security.
I use a BB and will stick with it for a number of reasons but the BB market cannot compete with the Android market.
-Tim
Commenting more on the fact that both Twitter and Facebook shut their doors to Google:
If facebook and twitter want in to +Your World, they will have to drop their walls.
Good strategic move by Google. There is definitely no grounds for anti-trust (Other people will provide better explanations than I) but it will leave Facebook and Twitter with a bad taste in their mouths as they are forced to the table to deal with Google.
FB (& TW) seem to want to takeover the customer by keeping customers in their walled gardens. Take over messaging and remove email, etc.
FB will now be more likely to open its platform to Google, and by extension, ensure that they are unable to control the entire world's social platform/market. Couple with this will be much better privacy controls that should come with open, privacy focused platform.
If Google doesn't do this, FB will introduce FB Search along with Bing or some other absurd measure to replace Google.
5 years ago everyone would have been playing nice... but today... a single company can produce a single product and sell this product to the entire world....
In this story, Google is painted as the wolf with the 3 little pigs being Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft.
This is to be the iTV to the TV as the iPod was to the portable MP3 player. Google TV is the MP3 player in this equation.
The fundamentals are, however, different:
1. Everyone already has a TV.
2. Everyone is already manufacturing TVs.
3. Every broadcaster has equipment (analog/digital) for that marketplace.
4. Broadcast TV is already legislated and controlled as a propagand^H^H^H^H broadcasting authority.
The iPod was competing in a new/clean market that did something fundamentally different to the portable CD Player. It "won" in that market place because it succeeding by (1) producing an incredible form factor, (2) taking advantage of iTunes distribution of digital music.
What Apple and Sony want to do is earn incredible profits by controlling and exclusively monetizing the entire supply chain from producer to consumer (pay per view), and force that on consumers without them realising it. ... Doing this in an established market is going to be difficult and everyone has learnt from iTunes.
iTunes saved the audio market by providing leadership and an alternative to "piracy".
The home TV market doesn't need saving.
Now what HP should be doing is taking their Web-OS tablet and ensure that their full range of corporate applications are streamlined to work on the WebOS. In actual fact, i'd take that WebOS tablet and streamline it in almost every manner specifically to be the preferred enterprise application tablet as opposed to a consumer tablet.
Exactly what the above means.... corporate remote manageability, good development environment, fantastic barcode and scanner device integration, extra durable, extended battery life, great out of the box adapters for their corporate applications, etc.
With their focus on HTML5 apps we have started entering into the trusted computing phase of life.
I already trust my iPad more for online banking than my Windows 7 PC. Why - its obvious, the ipad doesnt have viruses and can therefore be considered secure.
Trusted computing has soo many advantages to society yet in the hands of the wolves it has many disadvantages too.
-Tim
Its the sharks you have to worry about.
I believe they've missed the point of the conference.
The real question is "How do you build 1000 starships". Building one starship is like building one disposable rocket. We need to look at the entire economics and ecosystem required to manufacture this en-mass on a repeatable sustainable basis otherwise we are looking at a one-off moon mission that is not sustainable in the longterm.
When the zerg rock up, 1 starship is not gonna be enough.
This is inevitable and should be applauded. (Hehe - how sick is that!?) No - seriously.
The problem we face is not one of automated killing but the requirement for serious advances in the ability of humans to forgive, understand and cooperate with each other. War is only required when (1) human understanding breaks down, (2) some idiotic dictator has a mental problem, (3) enslavement.
It is amazing how easy it is to mold a square meter of solid granite and how difficult it is to change the mindset of a stubborn person. This applies to a wide range of people from any form of religious fanatics to any form of political fanatics... in actual fact - any form of fanatic. Stubbornness in the face of reason, logic and facts perpetuates unnecessary arguments.
I'm not american but there are fewer countries that have stronger political institutions and there is noone else i'd rather have with automated killing devices. Now AK devices in the hands of North Korea - different story.
Scientific advances in medicine, chemistry, computing... and war... will proceed. I unfortunately do not believe that our ability to cooperate has moved forward much.
-Tim